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A thought by Daniel Goleman; Richard Boyatzis
& Annie McKee, (2013-07-23) from their book, Primal Leadership, With a New Preface by the Authors: Unleashing the Power of Emotional Intelligence (Kindle Locations 618-619). Harvard
Business Review Press. Kindle Edition. (Click on the title to go to
Amazon.com to buy the book.) In finishing the
statement they say, “…and less able to understand them in others. Self-aware
leaders are attuned to their inner signals. They recognize, for instance, how
their feelings affect themselves and their job performance. Instead of letting
anger build into an outburst, they spot it as it crescendos and can see both
what’s causing it and how to do something constructive about it. Leaders who
lack this emotional self-awareness, on the other hand, might lose their temper
but have no understanding of why their emotions push them around.” Know thyself is so important.At one point I realized that my moodiness was
hurting me in my relationships.I was
hard to b…

A thought by Daniel Goleman; Richard Boyatzis
& Annie McKee, (2013-07-23) from their book, Primal Leadership, With a New Preface by the Authors: Unleashing the Power of Emotional Intelligence (Kindle Locations 379-380). Harvard
Business Review Press. Kindle Edition. (Click on the title to go to
Amazon.com to buy the book.) And a lot of people
today are not working at their best. They continue, “Feeling
good lubricates mental efficiency, making people better at understanding
information and using decision rules in complex judgments, as well as more
flexible in their thinking. Upbeat moods, research verifies, make people view
others— or events— in a more positive light. That in turn helps people feel
more optimistic about their ability to achieve a goal, enhances creativity and
decision-making skills, and predisposes people to be helpful.” That is true with your
friends and the people in your family.How does your family feel when they head out to school or to work?Do they feel good or …

A thought by Daniel Goleman; Richard Boyatzis
& Annie McKee, (2013-07-23) from their book, Primal Leadership, With a New Preface by the Authors: Unleashing the Power of Emotional Intelligence (Kindle Locations 362-363). Harvard
Business Review Press. Kindle Edition. (Click on the title to go to
Amazon.com to buy the book.)And so many people come to work each day and they
live each day with something negative that is effecting their emotions and in
turn will affect their work and of course their relationships. The authors share a couple of examples.“For instance, in a Yale study of moods and
their contagion, the performance of groups making executive decisions about how
best to allocate yearly bonuses was measurably boosted by positive feelings and
was impaired by negative ones. Significantly, the group members themselves did
not realize the influence of their own moods.”I think I would want my boss to be in a good mood when he is thinking
about my bonus. Another one, “For instance,…

A thought by Daniel Goleman; Richard Boyatzis
& Annie McKee, (2013-07-23) from their book, Primal Leadership, With a New Preface by the Authors: Unleashing the Power of Emotional Intelligence (Kindle Location 356). Harvard Business
Review Press. Kindle Edition. (Click on the title to go to Amazon.com to buy
the book.) I have found in my own approach to life, both of
those to be true.The people around me
always were afraid of what mood I was in and usually it was a bad one.Until I came to the place in my life that I realized
that I was hurting myself and those around me with my bad moods and started
striving to get control of my emotions and of my moods. Here is what the writers here say, “Both good and
bad moods tend to perpetuate themselves, in part because they skew perceptions
and memories: When people feel upbeat, they see the positive light in a
situation and recall the good things about it, and when they feel bad, they
focus on the downside. Beyond this
perceptual skew, the st…

A thought by Daniel Goleman; Richard Boyatzis
& Annie McKee, (2013-07-23) from their book, Primal Leadership, With a New Preface by the Authors: Unleashing the Power of Emotional Intelligence (Kindle Locations 79-80). Harvard Business
Review Press. Kindle Edition. (Click on the title to go to Amazon.com to buy
the book.) What a foreign thought.Most would say that the fundamental task of
leaders is to get a job done no matter the feeling of the ones they are leading. But they say, “At its root…the primal job of
leadership is emotional.” And “That occurs when a leader creates resonance—a
reservoir of positivity that frees the best in people.” They continue, “We believe this primal dimension
of leadership, though often invisible or ignored entirely, determines whether
everything else a leader does will work as well as it could. And this is why
emotional intelligence —being intelligent about emotions— matters so much for
leadership success: Primal leadership demands we bring emotional in…